<p>BB, I want to know what part of the country had sub 60 weather!!</p>
<p>Admire you hikers - that would be an activity NOT for me. Love a walk or run at a nature park, but no climbing!!</p>
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<p>I kind of like his taste in hats! Even if they are exorcist green. </p>
<p>BB, you’re selling me on Lulu. Especially the part where you remain cool and comfortable. It’s cooler in Virginia today, but still pretty steamy.</p>
<p>tom1944:</p>
<p>You can download Excel spreadsheets for all of the NROL4LIFE workouts here:</p>
<p>[Werkit</a> Workout Logs: New Rules of Lifting for Life](<a href=“http://werkit.com/programs/nrol4life]Werkit”>http://werkit.com/programs/nrol4life)</p>
<p>Really nice one page printouts of the workouts, with a handy list of the options for each slot. Easy to fill in the blanks and take the workout sheet with you. I find them much handier than carrying the book. Definitely worth the free download.</p>
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<p>I hear ya on the pushups. The videos I’ve been doing stress the slow tempo and hold at the bottom. Those things kicked my butt. Actually, that tempo kicked my butt on a lot of exercises.</p>
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<p>I’ve been doing the DB version of the single leg row. I find that an incredibly difficult exercise, even harder than a single leg deadlift. I basically hate it, but I’ve stuck with it as a good exercise for single leg deadlift balance. Once I’m done with this workout program, though, I doubt I’ll put that one in my workouts again.</p>
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<p>I find the side plank rows OK, but really struggle with the plank/pulldowns. It’s shocking how little resistance I have to use on those to keep any semblence of form.</p>
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<p>I was just thrilled not to fall down and bust my butt the first time I did the carioca and shuffles of that RAMP workout. Actually, I’m thrilled to not fall down and bust my butt EVERY TIME I do them…</p>
<p>BB - think I’m going to consider some lulu wear if it helps me run at that pace. Smokin!</p>
<p>Headed to the track-then if time the whirlpool.</p>
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The nice thing about the trails we took today was that there was virtually no one on them for most of our hike.</p>
<p>For some reason everyone seems to take the White Cross and White Dot trails. It’s like rush hour on them, and the trails are narrow enough in many spots that you have to wait for people to get out of the way to be able to move forward.</p>
<p>We probably didn’t see 20 people total on these other trails.</p>
<p>Thanks idad
Just finished dinner and so far fairly decent food intake today. Most likely more carbs than many on here but not as many as I usually have. Weekends will be more carbs than weekdays generally for me. Diet has been my downfall.</p>
<p>Steel cut oats 1/4 cup with 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk 1/2 cup of water and 1/4 cup pumpkin
1 Hard boiled egg</p>
<p>1 and 3/4 cups black beans with 4 ounces of mango salsa</p>
<p>9 small carrots and 2 cheese sticks</p>
<p>6 ounces baked chicken with paprika and 12 steamed Brussels sprouts saut</p>
<p>Well, I was going to take a rest day, but you guys motivated me to give it a little go before dinner. So I did the 35 lb kettlebell circuit I’ve been doing:</p>
<p>*Left Side:
Suitcase deadlift (6 reps)
Cleans (6 reps)
Front squat (6 reps)
Push press (6 reps)</p>
<p>Right Side:
Suitcase deadlift (6 reps)
Cleans (6 reps)
Front squat (6 reps)
Push press (6 reps)*</p>
<p>Rest for 90 seconds and repeat for a total of four sets.</p>
<p>I’m starting to get the hang of the kettlebell cleans and that, in turn, is making the sets just a little bit easier. Still, it’s hard to grind out the push presses at the end of each side. </p>
<p>Even taking 10 deep breaths between sides, I saw heart rates of 89% of my max. This is a very good workout in 19 minutes. It’s surprising that I feel my abs burning…</p>
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<p>Firing up the grill for my first hamburger in over a year, with some sharp Cabot’s cheddar cheese. Yum. I am going bunless, but I’ll get some carbs in the spicy cole slaw.</p>
<p>BTW, you guys are so right. Lulumon and running tank tops are definitely beyond my expertise. I don’t think tank tops are a good look on dudes my age! :)</p>
<p>Nike running shorts and tech t’s for sweaty workouts. Tech t’s and these [super</a> lightweight tech hiking shorts](<a href=“Marmot: Outdoor Clothing & Gear Made for Adventure”>Marmot: Outdoor Clothing & Gear Made for Adventure) for hanging around, trips to the grocery store, and so forth in this heat.</p>
<p>Good Lord, you step away from here for a few days, and are immediately put to shame!
Had a weight workout on Friday afternoon and took the weekend off, Vitamin D therapy, as we have agreed to call it.</p>
<p>Such good work, everyone!
BB, you are a goddess!
Tomorrow I am back in the gym, so I can be worthy to hang with this crowd ;)</p>
<p>APB for BCEagle. Might have missed some of his posts, but hope he is not AWOL from this thread. I channel my vicarious tennis player through him for one thing.</p>
<p>Two pathetic miles tonight - wasn’t as busy today and I honestly think that leaves me with less energy - plus it was not and kind of humid. And I didn’t for whatever eat too much substance today. Can you see I’m trying to make excuses for being sluggish!?</p>
<p>Yum. Two huge cheeseburgers on the grill! Almost 9/10ths of a pound of ground meat. I haven’t been cooking hamburgers because I thought I would miss the bun, but I didn’t miss the bread at all.</p>
<p>Filet and salad (greens, asparagus, beets, goat cheese and candied pecans) tonight at the sabaray house. Rest day for me today; H has started “climbing to Kiliminjaro”. Baby steps. </p>
<p>CJane, I think you are certainly entitled to that Vitamin D therapy!</p>
<p>I love hamburgers! We grilled Costco steak filets tonight for company. Really good. </p>
<p>Ran 2.1 miles this morning on tired, sore marathon legs and then walked the dog. Moderate quad soreness and general fatigue, but not bad.</p>
<p>Kind of sluggish here too…it’s humid as all get-out. DH and S cut the front and back yards for me, so I wasn’t forced to do anything. Call it a day off. I stretched & attempted pullups again (some days I just can’t get up there.) </p>
<p>Oh, and today was National Ice Cream Day and we had coupons for FREE cones at the new custard place, so we all splurged.</p>
<p>But yesterday’s good food invention was leftover green beans tossed with oil & tarragon vinegar dressing, cherry tomatoes, & topped with crumbled goat cheese. So tasty!</p>
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<p>Hmmmm. That sounds good. I never know what to do with leftover green beans (or asparagus), so you’ve given me a great suggestion to file away.</p>
<p>Our heat wave has finally broken. Lower humidity today and now it’s below 70 for the first night in about a week.</p>
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<p>Depends… [url=<a href=“http://www.charleseugster.net/]Welcome![/url”>http://www.charleseugster.net/]Welcome![/url</a>]</p>
<p>However, Lulumon stuff seems to be very expensive compared to other brands of athletic clothing.</p>
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<p>Depends is definitely not a good look… :)</p>
<p>^i don’t care if he wears depends…I’ll give major props to a 93-year-old who looks like THAT in a tank :)</p>
<p>A basket, you sound like you were in mcson’s city this weekend! How was the fair? I stayed home. Too many weekends away for me this month!</p>
<p>Mch had a household project that ended up eating the day yesterday, so our inaugural voyage for him on his new recumbent was quite short and didn’t happen til closer to nightfall.</p>
<p>But maybe that’s a good thing, because his back was already killing him, plus it had started to rain. </p>
<p>Nonetheless, having the two of us out riding a trail together was nothing short of the seventh sign of the apocalypse. So cheers to geezers slooooooowly turning over a new leaf :)</p>
<p>Yay for the inaugural recumbent voyage! :)</p>
<p>Our heat wave broke too–woke up to good old rain this a.m., instead of 100% humidity. Lovely temp of 69…I think I’ll put on the waterproof & go for a walk in the rain! :)</p>
<p>Kmc, the fair was filled with awesome vendors as always, but was also filled with thousands of people and though it wasn’t humid and steamy, it was fairly HOT. We just browsed - honestly, with all the people it was hard to focus on the booths - kept feeling like you needed to move along to let more people in the booths. AA2 is only about an hour away from us and our favorite quick get away for walking, shopping, eating, etc. Plus we have a lot of “blue and gold” blood in our family (don’t tell my husband I said that, his blood is green and white - the state competition!!)</p>
<p>Today should be a rest day but D has asked me to go to the fitness center with her later - I have a goal on RunKeeper for the month that I would like to get a little closer to meeting so I may go ahead and do some stretching and then a 20-30 min treadmill jaunt.</p>